According to foreign media reports, a gold miner accidentally discovered the remains of a 35,000-year-old mammoth cub while working in the Yukon region of Canada. This naturally mummified mammoth was 140 centimeters long. It died during the Ice Age 35,000 years ago and was frozen in permafrost. Scientists judged that it was only about 1 month old when it died.
This is a female mammoth cub. The local indigenous people named the mammoth "Nun cho ga" in their language, which means "large animal cub". This mammoth carcass is well preserved, with toenails, skin, hair, trunk and internal organs preserved. It is the "most complete" juvenile mammoth found in North America, and it is also the second well-preserved mammoth discovered by humans. Cub.
In 2007, Lyuba, the first well-preserved mammoth cub, was discovered in the permafrost of Siberia, Russia. Lyuba was only 130 centimeters long, smaller than the one found in Canada this time, and was inferred to have lived 42,000 years ago.
Mammoths have strong cold resistance and are one of the largest mammals that have ever lived on land. Among them, steppe mammoths can weigh up to 12 tons. Mammoths first appeared in Siberia, present-day Russia, 700,000 years ago, and later gradually wandered to Eurasia and northern America. About 4,000 years ago, the last mammoths became extinct.
